As if it wasn’t enough that tweens and teens are getting mani-pedis and blowouts, there are some–in the affluent DC suburbs, at least–who are also have their own image consultants to glamorize them. These Stacies and Clintons are doing booming business, according to an article in this...

Apologies, readers; what I am about to write is as much for me as it is for you.
Sometimes I think we could learn as much about being feminists from our failures as we can from our successes.
Let me confess one of my major feminist faults here. I’ve been thinking of calling for a one-month armistice...

Via Claire L. Evans @ Flickr.
The Internet is a window onto the world. If something exists, you can find it on the web. If it doesn’t, just check again tomorrow. And as you click around, the elves inside your computer are noting where you go, when, and how often, and madly tallying up...

This is a guest post by Harpy friend jessica gold haralson, who offered us an exclusive look at the new guide to etiquette we’ve all been awaiting from soon-to-be-ex-Countess LuAnn de Lesseps.
As we all know, television provides a dearth of Harpy-approved feminist entertainment, so most of us...

I have been following the Linda Hirshman piece on why we ought to be telling women to pull themselves out of domestic violence by their bootstraps, and feeling somewhat frustrated at the interest the concept has provoked. There is a certain brutal truth about her point, in the sense that I am fully...

There are better ways to blow a twenty. Via Beefus @ Flickr.Okay, chicas. We’ve come to the third and last installment of this mini-series, and here’s where I’m climbin’ up on my bully pulpit to suggest that we might consider using our (yes, our; I’m including myself in...

Use it or people will die.
Layers upon layers of sexism in this Wilkinson Sword Quattro commercial from the UK, entitled “Butterfly Effect.”
The scene: A man and woman canoodle in the back row of a moving bus. The man tries to run his hand up the woman’s leg but she pushes his hand...

Are you feeling blue? Do you need a pick-me-up? Are you constantly frowning? Maybe you need something less incisive than therapy and mood-altering than pills. Maybe it’s time for Botox! Why wrestle with your demons when you can inject them with botulism? Time brings us the heart-warming,...

I am only *mostly* confused. Via inju @ Flickr.First of all: many thanks to all who shared your numbers with me. I would be nothing without you.
Second of all: basics and caveats. N=40. All numbers were self-reported, and varied, according to those surveyed, between to-the-penny accounting and vast...

Readers, it has come to my attention that there are those among you who believe my (and other feminists’) oft-expressed disdain for members of the male sex is tantamount to man-hating. So Imma gonna take my dude joke/snark hat off for a minute here and explain why this is not the case, not because...

A mark, a yen, a buck or a pound? Via Roby72(c) @ Flickr.
I’m thinking about a mini-series (a written one, not a filmed version featuring me in empire-waisted dresses) on “The Cost of Beauty.” This would be Part One, and this is where I need your help the most.
I’ve already surveyed...

This is not how you or I look. Fuck the haters. Via emilyusry @ Flickr.
Bikinis are bullshit.
Not the actual concept of a two-piece swimsuit, mind you. The suit itself is fine, and quite comfy–less constricting and more air circulation than a one-piece. But the “bikini” as cultural...